19 March. The newly announced The Avengers series from Big Finish will feature Julian Wadham as John Steed; Mrs. Peel has yet to be cast. The series has an interesting comic connection: the stories will be based on the stories that appeared in Diana in 1966-67. Big Finish will release two volumes in April and November 2016 and a graphic novel collection of the comic strip, also in November 2016.

19 March. Dredd 2 is not going to happen according to writer/director of the Dredd movie, Alex Garland.

18 March. Alan Moore's novel Jerusalem has found an American publisher in Liveright & Co., an imprint of W. W. Norton. The UK edition will be published by Knockabout Comics in 2016.

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Monday, March 09, 2009

Harry Hargreaves' It's a Birds's Life

Something light and cheery for this Monday morning. The following cartoons are from Harry Hargreaves' It's a Bird's Life, reprinted from Punch where the 'little bird', of indeterminate species, appeared for many years.

I was supposed to be studying a bunch of other stuff, but I found a bunch of old bound copies of Punch from when Hargreaves was busiest, and spent hours leafing from volume to volume getting glares from other students as I giggled my way through all his cartoons.

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